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Counselling, Welfare and Community Services | Public Health and Health Services | Health and Community Services
Community Service (excl. Work) not elsewhere classified | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Development and Welfare | Social Class and Inequalities |
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 19-08-2022
DOI: 10.1111/HSC.13548
Abstract: Care-experienced young people demonstrate significantly poor physical, social and mental health outcomes during and beyond their time in care, yet they have rarely been consulted or included in research examining their health needs to date. This qualitative paper explores care-experienced young people's perceptions of health in care, including accessing healthcare and interacting with health professionals. The research methodology was informed by a co-design approach through consultation with care-experienced young people. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 young people. The findings revealed that: (1) the care system does not nurture young people's health (2) young people in care experience difficulty accessing and navigating a complex health system and (3) young people are not given a voice when it comes to their health. The findings provide key recommendations for practice, including the empowerment of young people through positive, responsive and trusting relationships to prioritise the health of young people in care.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 07-02-2013
Abstract: There is mounting evidence that current food production, transport, land use and urban design negatively impact both climate change and obesity outcomes. Recommendations to prevent climate change provide an opportunity to improve environmental outcomes and alter our food and physical activity environments in favour of a 'healthier' energy balance. Hence, setting goals to achieve a more sustainable society offers a unique opportunity to reduce levels of obesity. In the case of children, this approach is supported with evidence that even from a young age they show emerging understandings of complex environmental issues and are capable of both internalizing positive environmental values and influencing their own environmental outcomes. Given young children's high levels of environmental awareness, it is easy to see how environmental sustainability messages may help educate and motivate children to make 'healthier' choices. The purpose of this paper is to highlight a new approach to tackling childhood obesity by tapping into existing social movements, such as environmental sustainability, in order to increase children's motivation for healthy eating and physical activity behaviours and thus foster more wholesome communities. We contend that a social marketing framework may be a particularly useful tool to foster behaviour change beneficial to both personal and environmental health by increasing perceived benefits and reducing perceived costs of behaviour change. Consequently, we propose a new framework which highlights suggested pathways for helping children initiate and sustain 'healthier' behaviours in order to inform future research and potentially childhood obesity intervention strategies.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2017.07.004
Abstract: Young people living in residential out-of-home care (henceforth OoHC) are at increased risk of becoming overweight or obese. Currently, recognition of the everyday mechanisms that might be contributing to excess weight for children and young people in this setting is limited. The aim of this study was to better understand the barriers and complexities involved in the provision of a 'healthy' food environment in residential OoHC. Heightening awareness of these factors and how they might compromise a young person's physical health, will inform the development, refinement and evaluation of more sensitive and tailored weight-related interventions for this population. The paper presents a nuanced picture of the complexity of everyday food routines in residential care, and illustrates the ways in which food is 'done' in care how food can be both symbolic of care but also used to exercise control the way in which food can be used to create a 'family-like' environment and the impact of traumatic experiences in childhood on subsequent behaviours and overall functioning in relation to food. It is argued that a health agenda designed for a mainstream population ignores the very complex relationship that children in residential OoHC may have with food. It is recommended that future intervention approaches account for personal food biographies, trauma and children's social backgrounds and how these are implicated in everyday practices and interactions around food.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-06-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-04-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-02-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-10-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-03-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-02-2014
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 08-03-2022
DOI: 10.1111/HSC.13773
Abstract: The Healthy Eating, Active Living Matters (HEALing Matters) program is being scaled up across residential out-of-home care (OOHC) in Victoria, Australia and is providing young people with the knowledge, skills and resources to promote better health through healthy eating and activity. HEALing Matters was piloted as the HEAL program, a dual-intervention program that aimed to provide young people living in residential care with education and opportunities to improve their eating and physical activity habits, while simultaneously building the capacity of their carers to promote, encourage and role model healthy lifestyle behaviours. Qualitative findings indicated that HEAL resulted in increased participation in community sport, increased availability of sports equipment, healthy meal preparation and healthy food availability and improvements in perceived young person self-esteem and independent living skills. Findings also revealed some limitations of the program. Following the pilot, a participatory methodological approach was used to better understand how to align the HEAL program with in idual and community needs. This approach engaged erse stakeholders to better understand the barriers and enablers, address limitations, identify key intervention points and build trust and a shared vision to co-design the HEALing Matters program. HEALing Matters is now delivered within a framework that is informed by attachment, trauma and resilience theories. This paper outlines the HEALing Matters journey from what matters, to what works, to what translates in relation to a healthy eating and active living intervention in OOHC.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-02-2017
DOI: 10.1111/MCN.12420
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-12-2013
DOI: 10.1111/JPC.12041
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-01-2017
DOI: 10.1002/CAR.2442
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-01-2017
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 23-07-2019
DOI: 10.1111/HSC.12621
Abstract: Trauma in early childhood has been shown to adversely affect children's social, emotional, and physical development. Children living in out-of-home care (OoHC) have better outcomes when care providers are present for children, physically, psychologically, and emotionally. Unfortunately, the high turnover of out-of-home carers, due to vicarious trauma (frequently resulting in burnout and exhaustion) can result in a child's trauma being re-enacted during their placement in OoHC. Organisation-wide therapeutic care models (encompassing the whole organisation, from the CEO to all workers including administration staff) that are trauma-informed have been developed to respond to the complex issues of abuse and neglect experienced by children who have been placed in OoHC. These models incorporate a range of therapeutic techniques, and provide an overarching approach and common language that is employed across all levels of the organisation. The aim of this study was to investigate the current empirical evidence for organisation-wide, trauma-informed therapeutic care models in OoHC. A systematic review searching leading databases was conducted for evidence of organisation-wide, trauma-informed, out-of-home care studies, between 2002 and 2017. Seven articles were identified covering three organisational models. Three of the articles assessed the Attachment Regulation and Competency framework (ARC), one study assessed the Children and Residential Experiences programme (CARE), and three studies assessed The Sanctuary Model. Risk of bias was high in six of the seven studies. Only limited information was provided on the effectiveness of the models identified through this systematic review, although the evidence did suggest that trauma-informed care models may have significantly positive outcomes for children in OoHC. Future research should focus on evaluating components of trauma-informed care models and assessing the efficacy of the various organisational care models currently available.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2018
DOI: 10.1111/CP.12154
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-03-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2015
Abstract: Given the high prevalence of overweight/obesity among young people in residential out-of-home care (OOHC), and as their carers are in loco parentis, this research aimed: 1) to examine the healthy lifestyle cognitions and behaviours of residential carers and 2) to describe resources needed to improve diet and/or physical activity outcomes for residents. Cross-sectional data were collected from 243 residential carers. Measures included: demographics knowledge of dietary hysical activity recommendations self-reported encouragement/importance of health behaviours physical activity/screen time (at work) unit 'healthiness' and necessary resources for creating a healthy environment. Staff placed importance on the residents eating well and being physically active. However, examination of carer knowledge found significant gaps in staff education. Three key priority areas were identified to help build a healthy food and activity environment in residential OOHC: funding, professional development and policy. Carer knowledge of healthy lifestyles can be improved and they need to be well resourced to ensure children in public care settings live in a healthy environment. These findings may inform the development of ongoing professional development to improve carers' health literacy, as well as policy to support dietary/activity guidelines for the OOHC sector.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 18-08-2021
Abstract: Children in care (CiC) have often experienced trauma and, as a result, are at high risk for poor health outcomes. It is imperative that human-service stakeholders provide trauma-informed health services and interventions. However, little is known about how health promotion is addressed in the standards and guidelines for CiC. For this scoping review, the aim was to examine and compare how nutrition and physical activity are discussed in: 1) federal standards for CiC across the United Kingdom, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia and 2) state and territory guidance in Australia. The grey literature was searched for documents outlining key child-welfare standards, guidelines, or policies for the provision of care across foster, kinship, or residential care. Documents were examined for the inclusion of recommendations and/or strategies focused on primary health and the promotion of nutrition and/or physical activity. A total of 52 documents were included in this review: 28 outlining international federal guidance and 24 Australian documents. In the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, references to physical activity were often broad, with minimal direction, and nutrition was often neglected the United Kingdom provided more detailed guidance to promote nutrition and physical activity among CiC. There is a lack of consistency and specificity in guidelines supporting healthy lifestyle interventions for CiC both internationally and within Australia. It is recommended that 1) specific trauma-informed health promotion guidelines are developed for CiC and 2) trauma-informed health promotion training is provided to carers. Doing so will ensure that care is provided in a manner in which stakeholders recognize the signs and consequences of trauma in order to determine the most appropriate health interventions to improve outcomes and prevent ongoing trauma for this population.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-11-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-02-2018
DOI: 10.1002/CAR.2453
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-09-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
Location: Australia
Start Date: 06-2023
End Date: 06-2027
Amount: $554,188.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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